Basic Trope: A heavily East Asian-tuned Baroness.
- Straight: Evulz's ally Alice Lee is a mysterious, aloof, evil and hot Chinese woman that wears a dragon-themed qipao and is skilled at kung-fu.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice Lee is very aggressive and aloof like a tiger, is impossibly hot, and is skilled at all kinds of marital arts. She is even much more evil than Evulz could ever dream of.
- On top of that, Alice leads a whole freaking Amazon Brigade of Dark Action Girls dressed and skilled similarly to her — and named, guess how, the Dragon Ladies.
- Downplayed: Alice Lee is simply beautiful, rarely engages in major displays of emotion, is Hot-Blooded, and shows some skill in kung-fu. She teams up with the bad guys a few times, but her morality is gray as day.
- Justified:
- Alice was a Fallen Hero, she joined the bad guys after Evulz gave her a chance to use her powers for evil, which she agreed to.
- The story is set in China and has a mostly Chinese cast. It logically follows that the mysterious, seductive villainess would be no different.
- Inverted:
- Alice Lee is pretty (of the Girl Next Door variety) rather than sexy, simple-minded to the point of silliness yet kind and friendly.
- Alice Lee is an evil and hot Chinese woman with a penchant for Germanic motifs: she wears a full set of German Gothic plate armor, tries to invoke the image of an European knight with wielding swords and lances, and while her coat of arms is indeed dragon-themed, it's modeled after a European dragon rather than a Chinese dragon.
- Alice Lee is a mysterious, aloof, evil and hot white woman in an East Asian work of fiction. She's a master of Savate and wears a griffin-themed flapper dress.
- Subverted: Despite being somewhat amoral, Alice turns out to be one of the good guys.
- Double Subverted: Turns out she was faking it and double-crossed the heroes at the first opportunity.
- Parodied: The heroes have heard many tales about the mysterious but hot dragon lady named Alice that Evulz has met in China recently employed. Turns out, Alice is a literal female dragon who is the Last of Her Kind and would gladly burn her enemies into crisp.
- Zig Zagged: Alice sometimes uses Kung-fu while wearing a qipao, European swordfighting in a catsuit...
- Averted: There are no Dragon Ladies within the story.
- Enforced: "Hey, since this is set somewhere in China, why won't we add in a Dragon Lady?"
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: Alice isn't even an Asian to begin with, but she dresses like one and tries to invoke the image of an evil Chinese martial artist.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Alice teams up with the good guys for her will.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: Bob and Carol watch an old film serial and talk about how one of the antagonists, Alice Lee, fits the "dragon lady" archetype to a "T".
- Deconstructed: Alice attempts to seduce Bob, but he doesn't fall for it as he's too savvy to trust a person like this.
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